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Cyanea

Gaudich. (1828)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Asterales Family: Campanulaceae Genus: Cyanea

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Shrubs or trees 0.3–6 m tall, sometimes palm-like and 1–14 m tall, terrestrial or rarely epiphytic, with white, yellow, or tan latex.

Stems: Stems unarmed, muricate, or aculeate.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Margins callose–toothed or pinnately lobed, cleft, parted, or divided, the lobes or segments then callose–toothed, lobed, or divided. Petiolate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers 5–25(–40) in axillary racemes, the rachis sometimes not expanded, the raceme thus appearing subumbellate; hypanthium obconical or obovoid, rarely ovoid, oblong, or depressed–obovoid. Flowers bisexual (perfect) or rarely unisexual, sometimes resupinate, usually protandrous, rarely cleistogamous. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes dentiform, triangular, or oblong, rarely linear, distinct or rarely connate, much shorter to somewhat longer than hypanthium, rarely up to as long as the corolla, tube adnate to ovary. Corolla zygomorphic, glabrous or pubescent, rarely muricate, the tube suberect to strongly arcuate, dorsally cleft to about the middle, the lobes connate, spreading, rarely erect or all 5 downcurved in the same plane. Stamens 5, alternate with corolla lobes, connate; anthers with apical tufts of white hairs on the lower 2 or rarely all 5, dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits, coherent but separating after anthesis or connate and forming a tube into which pollen is shed; filaments distinct or connate above, attached to the epigynous nectary disk or to base of corolla, rarely adnate to corolla tube. Ovary inferior, 2-celled; ovule placentation axile; stigma 2-lobed, wet or dry, appressed and nonreceptive as the style grows through the anther tube, pushing out the pollen, after which the stigmas spread apart and become receptive.

Fruit: Fruit a yellow; orange; or purple berry. Seeds numerous; small; brown to black; smooth; shiny; 0.2–0.5(–2) mm long; with a straight; short to spatulate dicotyledonous embryo embedded in oily endosperm.

Ploidy: 2n = 28

Habitat:

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Historical Distribution

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Accepted Subtaxa (in Hawai'i) (84)

Cyanea aculeatiflora Rock
Cyanea acuminata (Gaudich.) Hillebr.
Cyanea angustifolia (Cham.) Hillebr.
Cyanea arborea Hillebr.
Cyanea asarifolia H.St.John
Cyanea asplenifolia (H.Mann) Hillebr.
Cyanea calycina (Cham.) Lammers
Cyanea calycina × Cyanea lanceolata
Cyanea comata Hillebr.
Cyanea copelandii Rock
Cyanea coriacea (A.Gray) Hillebr.
Cyanea crispa (Gaudich.) Lammers, Givnish & Sytsma
Cyanea cylindrocalyx (Rock) Lammers
Cyanea dolichopoda Lammers & Lorence
Cyanea dunbariae Rock
Cyanea duvalliorum Lammers & H.Oppenh.
Cyanea eleeleensis (H.St.John) Lammers
Cyanea elliptica (Rock) Lammers
Cyanea fissa (H.Mann) Hillebr.
Cyanea floribunda E.Wimm.
Cyanea gibsonii Hillebr.
Cyanea giffardii Rock
Cyanea glabra (E.Wimm.) H.St.John
Cyanea grimesiana Gaudich.
Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers
Cyanea hamatiflora Rock
Cyanea hardyi Rock
Cyanea heluensis H.Oppenh.
Cyanea hirtella (H.Mann) Hillebr.
Cyanea horrida (Rock) O.Deg. & Hosaka
Cyanea horrida × Cyanea macrostegia
Cyanea humboldtiana (Gaudich.) Lammers, Givnish & Sytsma
Cyanea kahiliensis (H.St.John) Lammers
Cyanea kauaulaensis H.Oppenh. & Lorence
Cyanea kolekoleensis (H.St.John) Lammers
Cyanea konahuanuiensis Sporck-Koehler, M.Waite & A.M.Williams
Cyanea koolauensis Lammers, Givnish & Sytsma
Cyanea kuhihewa Lammers
Cyanea kunthiana (Gaudich.) Hillebr.
Cyanea lanceolata (Gaudich.) Lammers, Givnish & Sytsma
Cyanea leptostegia A.Gray
Cyanea linearifolia Rock
Cyanea lobata H.Mann
Cyanea longiflora (Wawra) Lammers, Givnish & Sytsma
Cyanea longissima (Rock) H.St.John
Cyanea macrostegia Hillebr.
Cyanea macrostegia × Cyanea scabra
Cyanea magnicalyx Lammers
Cyanea mannii (Brigham ex H.Mann) Hillebr.
Cyanea maritae Lammers & H.Oppenh.
Cyanea marksii Rock
Cyanea mauiensis (Rock) Lammers
Cyanea mceldowneyi Rock
Cyanea membranacea Rock
Cyanea minutiflora Lammers
Cyanea munroi (Hosaka) Lammers
Cyanea obtusa (A.Gray) Hillebr.
Cyanea parvifolia (C.N.Forbes) Lammers, Givnish & Sytsma
Cyanea pilosa A.Gray
Cyanea pinnatifida (Cham.) E.Wimm.
Cyanea platyphylla (A.Gray) Hillebr.
Cyanea pohaku Lammers
Cyanea procera Hillebr.
Cyanea profuga C.N.Forbes
Cyanea pseudofauriei Lammers
Cyanea purpurellifolia (Rock) Lammers, Givnish & Sytsma
Cyanea pycnocarpa (Hillebr.) E.Wimm.
Cyanea quercifolia (Hillebr.) E.Wimm.
Cyanea recta (Wawra) Hillebr.
Cyanea remyi Rock
Cyanea rivularis Rock
Cyanea salicina H.Lév.
Cyanea scabra Hillebr.
Cyanea sessilifolia (O.Deg.) Lammers
Cyanea shipmanii Rock
Cyanea solanacea Hillebr.
Cyanea solenocalyx Hillebr.
Cyanea spathulata (Hillebr.) A.Heller
Cyanea st-johnii (Hosaka) Lammers, Givnish & Sytsma
Cyanea stictophylla Rock
Cyanea superba (Cham.) A.Gray
Cyanea tritomantha A.Gray
Cyanea truncata (Rock) Rock
Cyanea undulata C.N.Forbes

Uses and Culture

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Voy. Uranie: t. 75 (1828)

Occurrences

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